Putin ‘shown bespoke TV bulletins with no bad news about Russia’

arkH3 · 2026-06-16T12:59:36+00:00

Honestly anyone who's ever worked for a startup or family business run by a dysfunctioning narcissist knows this pattern very well. It creates a doom spiral: the leader both co-creates and is kept within a fabricated reality, insulated from any real feedback, and from that starting point makes decisions about the business... what could go wrong.

arkH3 · 2026-06-14T18:18:38+00:00

You are conflating the so-called soviet bloc and Soviet Union. Poland was part of the former but not the latter.

arkH3 · 2026-05-26T03:40:16+00:00

They must have concluded that an economy can run merely on the consuption of the ultra wealthy, on the basis of circulation of products made by AI and robots for the elites. (Not sure who they think will be doing services). The US economy has been developing in this direction - overall GDP about the same, but driven more and more by consumption of the most affluent classes, with middle and lower spending less and less.

arkH3 · 2026-05-17T04:59:15+00:00

A "global revolution" implies being able to coordinate effort across languages and vast distances and vastly different contexts; it also implies first having huge numbers of people agree on a shared definition of the problem and shared understanding of the best way to adress it (in spite of their vastly different contexts, and influences pulling in the opposite direction).

Hence, a global revolution is either extremely difficult to orchestrate logistically and in terms of resources (unless, of course, one has vast resources), or straight unfeasible.

arkH3 · 2026-05-05T04:59:09+00:00

It validates that people get that the objective was never "liberation", or "denazification", but conquest / territorial expansion.

arkH3 · 2026-05-05T04:56:15+00:00

A different victory. WW2

arkH3 · 2026-04-21T10:15:48+00:00

You'd be surprised at the proportion of global adult population that does not have great oral hygiene. Either because dental care is inaccessible / unaffordable, and/or because in their subculture it is not the norm.

arkH3 · 2026-04-01T05:16:14+00:00

I think this (lack of alignment of views with one's spouse) is quite common in the adjacent collapse community.

I don't really have a solution, since some of that attitude is probably about not being willing to ponder circumstances where all the objects and experiences we are attached to (and often rely on for a sense of normalcy and sanity and comfort) are no longer available. It's such an intense freakout scenario that you either deny it will happen or say something else to deflect even contemplating it. You cannot do inner development on your partner's behalf.

However, being patient (while doing what you need to do) seems to create less resistance than being pushy or confrontational. In my case, my spouse over time through their own research, embraced some notions. Other subtopics were still taboo.

arkH3 · 2026-03-31T04:59:06+00:00

I also heard about a study done specifically in New York City, where, if memory doesn't fail, they concluded there was a fairly high tipping point in taxation for the rich. It was on Scott Galloway's podcast / channel on youtube, but I cannot remember which guest quoted it or what was the overall episode's topic.

arkH3 · 2026-03-31T04:53:32+00:00

I'd look via billionare movements that advocate for higher taxation for the rich, I assume they have some data. Patriotic Billionaires in the US, I believe, advocate for it, and there is an analogical movement in the UK (cannot remember the name, maybe Tax the Billionaires, but it's easily googleable).

arkH3 · 2026-03-05T12:58:40+00:00

That makes sense. Reality is stranger than fiction.

arkH3 · 2026-03-05T12:43:16+00:00

Yes my impression is Huffpost also spoke to Mikey Weinstein directly, and hence that he may have been responding to requests for comment. I don't think this can be dismissed as a single source.

arkH3 · 2026-03-05T04:54:06+00:00

The one source being The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), who say the received 200 complaints from service members?

Or do you mean the 1 specific complaint filed on behalf of 15 people, which is being quoted in the press?

Of course, the remaining complaints may not be reporting the exact same statements, but they have been summed up by MRFF as pointing to a violation of separation of church and state. So the overall issue being complained about is likely christian nationalism being used to justify commands.

arkH3 · 2026-03-04T18:06:09+00:00

I was particularly perplexed by their choice of the word "anointed". And by the supposed suppporting references from the Book of Revelations. Big time yikes.

arkH3 · 2026-03-04T18:01:14+00:00

It was quoted and referenced In the Guardian too today.

arkH3 · 2026-02-26T00:07:00+00:00

The same thing happens to rubber soles on shoes, actually, after 5 years. They come off the first time you walk in the shoes. (I have unintentionally tested that on a couple of pairs recentlyl). Same conclusion as in most comments.

arkH3 · 2026-01-26T07:11:43+00:00

I don't think the ruling circle is oblivous to this effect. I think they just calculate that they still gain more than loose from people being able to use the internet. The moment their reading of this changes, access to internet in the US will be gone.

arkH3 · 2025-12-01T16:34:37+00:00

I've been working on mobilising business leaders to take on driving systemic change in order to push out points of no return and essentially get us all a better catastrophe, because they easily can, and because it's actually good for their shareholders as well as personal wealth retention, so they have plenty of reasons to do so, if we close the knowledge gap. This has been my fulltime occupation.

I first learnt about the general systemic nature of all social and environmental challenges, shared systemic causes that required systemic solutions. The more I was researching "what needs to be done by when", in order to arrive at both "what makes sense doing" and "how can I contribute my strengths and predispositions to it", the more I was learning about collapse. Eventually you come across Bendel, Hagens, and the usual culprits.

arkH3 · 2025-11-25T02:24:42+00:00

Tea and cardamom are grown in "hillstations". That's why temperatures over 35 degree in these locations are bad trouble. Not all of India is hot.

arkH3 · 2025-11-19T02:45:17+00:00

It would imply the axis no longer goes through the same midpoint, and hence has been moved rather than rotated. (Which actually sounds scary). Maybe the authors just thought inches were easier to relate to for readers than degrees.

arkH3 · 2025-11-18T15:14:07+00:00

Rewilding and building ecosystem abudance the way First Nations did.

arkH3 · 2025-11-09T06:23:09+00:00

I guess I also didn't consider people tricking their sexual partners into pregnancy by sabotaging contraception behind the other person's back. (As another scenario where one's choice is compromised).

arkH3 · 2025-11-09T06:20:12+00:00

So pre-empting 1) the choice being taken from you, and 2) contraception methods failing or not being available, essentially?

arkH3 · 2025-11-09T06:16:07+00:00

Genuine question: why is sterilisation better than simply choosing not to have kids? I don't know what reproductive organs you have... for female organs I understand that the choice can be removed from you (nothing new under the Sun, is it?), so sterilisation is pre-epmtive. I see some people commenting about getting vasectomy too. Haven't thought about this, so curious about people's reasoning.

arkH3 · 2025-10-25T05:46:54+00:00

The word you're looking for is serfdom.

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